About Me

Born in August 1887 in Awsworth Notts, to Henry and Sarah Lamin. Elder Sisters Catherine (Kate), Mary Esther and Sarah Anne(Annie) and Elder brother John (Jack).
Educated at Awsworth Board School, just outside Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England.
I served with honour in the 9th Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment seeing front line action in Flanders and Northern Italy from the end of 1916 to January 1920.

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Link to The very first Posts

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From 1st March 1918 the leap year in 2008 takes the synchronicity of the days and dates away. Decision: I will publish letters a day in advance so that the days of the week coincide, rather than the date.

"New" readers please note that the entries on each page are in reverse order, oldest at the bottom.

It doesn't work quite like a book. To make sense of the whole blog, take the link to the "First Posts", work from the bottom entry upwards and then take the "Newer posts" link at the bottom of each page for the next installment.

Link to The First Post. (New Readers)

Astonishingly, the final event of The Great War has taken place, 92 years after the end of hostilities. With the final installment of the reparations to be paid by Germany to France, the book can, finally be closed.

3 comments:

I am just about of your generation, but my children have the unusual distinction that their maternal and paternal grandfathers were in opposing trenches in WWI.

Both survived that war, neither would talk about it. (Although I do have some notes written in my grandfather's Army-issue New Testament and the wee Bible given to him by my Grannie. They included the note "taken prisoner by The Hun".)

My Scots grandfather lived on, though a family heart condition took him too young.

My German grandfather-in-law, a railway worker, happened to be a German working man in the wrong place in 1945 and was taken away - he never re-appeared. His wife had to take a daughter, toddler and baby granddaughters 400 miles on foot back home through the Russian army.

War forces ordinary people to live in circumstances of utter extremity, and some coped in any way known to human beings - other don't find any way to cope. And it goes on, every day somewhere on the globe.

I take school groups to places where they may catch just a little notion of what that is about.